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New Caledonia Pitcher Plant

Nepenthes vieillardii

Also called New Caledonian Pitcher Plant

New Caledonia Pitcher Plant
Photo: Nepenthes_vieillardii_pitcher.jpg: Vincent Chaigneau derivative work: Mgiganteus (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0

A climbing pitcher plant native to New Caledonia, growing in shrubland and forest up to about 900 m. It needs bright light, humid air and a wet-but-airy root zone, and it is widely grown in cultivation.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the medium moist but not waterlogged, using rainwater or distilled water.
Soil
Free-draining mix of sphagnum moss and perlite or orchid bark.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New Caledonia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Nepenthes vieillardii (; after Eugène Vieillard, collector of plants from New Caledonia and Tahiti between 1861 and 1867) is a species of pitcher plant endemic to the island of New Caledonia. Its distribution is the most easterly of any Nepenthes species. Its natural habitat is shrublands or forests, to about 900 metres (3,000 ft) altitude.

Tripteroides caledonicus mosquitoes breed in the pitchers of this species.

Other Nepenthes plants

Nepenthes abalata · Nepenthes abgracilis · Nepenthes adnata · Nepenthes aenigma · Nepenthes alata · Nepenthes alba · Nepenthes albomarginata · Nepenthes alfredoi · Nepenthes alzapan · Flask-Shaped Pitcher-Plant · Nepenthes andamana · Nepenthes angasanensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nepenthes vieillardii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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